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In the Walt Disney World news, most of the news came from this past Monday's
Walt Disney World Park Update, and
links to the various information reported can be found there.

The new games installed
in the Soarin' queue are proving very popular.

Disney has signed a deal
with the Chelsea Football Club as the Official Professional Soccer Club
of Disney's Wide World of Sports and the presenting sponsor of Disney's
Soccer Showcase Series.

New touch-screen kiosks are
being tested at Pecos Bill's Tall Tale Inn and Cafe.

The Arribas Brothers shop, which recently relocated into the former Market
House, will now be expanding
into the long-vacant former Disney and Company shop on Center Street, and
the new Fantasia merchandise shop will be located adjacent to the new Game
Station arcade.

We took a look at some of the plans that almost were put into place for
Epcot's 25th anniversary before they were scuttled by the Year of a Million
Dreams. We're trying to get more information on what may actually be in
place for the revised plans.

In the Disneyland news, which this week was reported live from Disneyland
by Andrew Rich, some of the news came from this past Monday's Disneyland
Park Update.

The celebration of Disneyland's birthday seems a bit understated this
year.

Billy Ray Cyrus releases his
first album with Walt Disney Records on Tuesday.

Disney is releasing High
School Musical 2 with prime-time showings on three consecutive nights.
Friday, August 17 will have the premiere of the movie. Saturday, August
18 will have the "Wildcat Chat" rerun, where viewers will be able
to send questions to the cast during the broadcast. On Sunday, August 19,
the "Sing-Along Telecast" will feature on-screen lyrics so that
fans can (what else?) sing along with the cast.

Members of the Disney
Movie Club have received letters telling them of a security breach where
their credit card numbers may have been compromised.

Disney Interactive made many announcements at last week's E3 Media & Business
Summit 2007:

DGamer will be an interactive web-based community centered around
Disney video games and will make it's first appearance next May. It
will initially be released for the Nintendo DS platform, and will eventually
be available on the Windows PC platform.

The new Turok game will be released next February.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will be released next May,
the first title that will include DGamer interfaces.

Ratatouille
came in third at the weekend box
office, bringing its total since release to just under $143 million.

At the last minute, Roy E. Disney decided not to skipper his yacht Pyewacket
in the TransPacific
Yacht Race. His son, Roy Patrick, is skippering instead. Disney didn't
want to sail with his attention split, as he is also making a movie about
a crew of young sailors that he financed to sail the Morning Light in the
race. As of Wednesday night, Pyewacket
was in the lead, but seems to be falling behind the speed necessary
to take back the record for the fastest transit of the course. Morning Light
appeared to be in the lead in the Division 2 race.

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